The Pinakes project aims to provide an open and free downloadable application customable for the different disciplinary tasks of humanities research - a modeling environment for scientific heritage database applications. Thanks to the integration of different types of objects, such as instruments, manuscripts, texts, iconography a.o., Pinakes aims at transforming the traditional approach to the primary sources of the history of science into a sort of archeology of scientific knowledge.

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Digital Libraries

Building a Digital Library of Slavic Manuscripts, Early Printed Books and Reference Database

Homepage: Not yet available

The project (IL BAS, University in Gothenburg and University in Uppsala, Sweden) (2008–2011) will be centred on the integration of current technological advancements in the field of electronic description of manuscripts and early printed books along with the results achieved during the next stage of Swedish-Bulgarian cooperation (2005–2007, the project entitled “Computer processing of Slavic manuscripts”). The rich collection of Slavic manuscripts and early printed books in Carolina Rediviva university library in Uppsala and the collection of parchment manuscripts in Stockholm Royal Library will provide an excellent opportunity for implement the principals of a digital library of Slavic manuscripts and early printed books.

Digital Libraries Federation (DLF)

The PIONIER Network Digital Libraries Federation (DLF, http://fbc.pionier.net.pl/) is the next stage of developing a network of distributed digital libraries and repositories in Poland. The name of the DLF corresponds to its nature – it is a set of advanced network services based on the resources available in Polish digital libraries and repositories deployed in the PIONIER network. These resources are created by many institutions like universities, libraries, museums, archives or research institutions. The Digital Libraries Federation is maintained by Poznań Supercomputing and Networking Center affiliated to the Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences, and the PSNC Digital Libraries Team is responsible for the DLF development.

Pinakes

The Pinakes project aims to provide an open and free downloadable application customable for the different disciplinary tasks of humanities research - a modeling environment for scientific heritage database applications. Thanks to the integration of different types of objects, such as instruments, manuscripts, texts, iconography a.o., Pinakes aims at transforming the traditional approach to the primary sources of the history of science into a sort of archeology of scientific knowledge.

Slovo: Towards a Digital Library of South Slavic Manuscripts

Slovo is a collaborative project between institions in Austria, Slovenia, Serbia, Macedonia, and Bulgaria and funded by the Austrian Science and Research Liaison Office within the framework of 7th EU Program. Objectives include:

1. Cooperation between the Slavic countries and Central Europe in the field of medieval Slavic studies, especially concerning the written Balkan cultural heritage;

2. Networking between institutions involved in academic research on medieval Slavic monastic literature and culture and their relationship with Central European literature and culture: organization of a workshop on Digital Libraries of Slavic Manuscripts and Archival Documents and a round table on Early Slavic Monastic culture (Sofia, February, 2008);

3. Developing of an experimental web site SLOVO for the Balkan written heritage and culture, maintained by the Bulgarian Academy of sciences (BAS);

4. Developing international standards for the description and analysis of the written heritage (terminology, principles and methods) in order to create a common platform for electronic publishing.

Digital Editions and Corpora

Chronicle of Matthew of Edessa

Homepage: None at present

This project entails undertaking a critical edition of the Chronicle of Matthew of Edessa, a historical chronicle written in Armenian by Matthew, who was a priest in Edessa sometime in the 1120s to 1130s. There has been no critical edition of this text since 1898, and never one based on more than a few of the extant manuscripts. The aim of this project is therefore to do a full online critical edition and translation.

Genetic Edition of Goethe's Faust

The edition focuses on providing all relevant manuscripts of Faust in a science-based way for the first time by making the facsimiles and transcriptions available. Furthermore it aims to reconstruct the genetic relations between them and therefore seek for visualisation strategies in the electronic medium so that a general public will have the opportunity to have a look inside the making of one of the most important literary works in German language.

Inscriptions of Roman Cyrenaica (IRCyr)

The project, funded by the Leverhulme Trust, is continuing to develop the EpiDoc and TEI-compliant XML schema for the publication of ancient documents. The team are completing a corpus of Greek and Latin inscriptions of the Roman period from Cyrenaica (eastern Libya).

Literary Remains of Franz Brümmer

Franz Brümmer, a German scholar active in the late 19th and early 20th century published several editions of his seminal lexicon incorporating writer’s biographies over his lifetime. His literary remains contain an archive of the material Brümmer used for his publications and is edited by this project in a collaborative, web-based way. Students in Literary Studies transcribe the material in an online editing environment as part of their curriculum.

Repertorium of Old Bulgarian Literature and Letters with Computer Tools

The Repertorium Initiative corpus includes over 350 Slavic manuscripts (from collections in Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Russia, Serbia, Sweden, United Kingdom, etc.) which are described analytically in XML format. The core DTD follows TEI P5 guidelines with some new elements, created especially for Slavic manuscripts.

Repertorium Initiative is closely coordinated with three other projects:

1. Metadata and Electronic Catalogues, which defines terminology necessary for research work on medieval manuscript;

2. Libri Slavici, a joint undertaking of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and the University of Sofia in the field of bibliography on medieval written heritage;

3. Repertorium Workstation, identifying the typology of the content of manuscripts and texts with the aid of computational tools.

Together, all four projets share the common structure of the TEI documents and use a common XSLT library for transforming documents to a variety of formats (including XML, HTML, and SVG), thus providing a sound base for the exchange of information and for electronic publishing.

Sharing Ancient Wisdoms (SAWS)

The project, funded by HERA, aims to publish several collections of 'sayings' in Greek and Arabic online, using RDF to express and analyse their relationships to one another, to the texts which they cite, and to others which they influence.

The Tenth-Century Cyrillic Manuscript Codex Suprasliensis: The Creation of an Electronic Corpus

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This project, funded by UNESCO (2010–2012), aims to unite digital images of all three parts of the Codex Suprasliensis, currently located in three different countries (the National Library in Warsaw, Poland; the National Library of Russia in St. Petersburg; and the National and University Library in Ljubljana, Slovenia). In addition to reuniting the parts of the manuscript, the current project aims to develop an electronic version of the Codex Suprasliensis, together with critical apparatus, parallel Greek text, translation, vocabulary, grammatical analysis, and tools for searching. Digital images of all sheets of the monument will be available simultaneously with the text as a unified electronic product.

The Writings of Ludvig Holberg (1684-1754)

The project aims to provide a new critical online edition of the writings of the historian, poet, playwright, essay writer etc Ludvig Holberg (1684-1754), the great Enlightenment figure of Denmark-Norway. The edition will be furnished with introductions and commentaries, and digital facsimiles of the first editions will be linked to the edited texts.

Ludvig Holberg was a prolific author. Today perhaps best known for his comedies he also wrote in a variety of other genres. He composed biographies and other historical works in the vein of Enlightenment 'philosophical history', and he was the founder of the essay genre in Danish. Most of his works are in Danish but he was also a versatile Latinist with a European outlook. Among his Latin works are his vivid auto-biography and the utopian novel Iter subterraneum Nicolai Climii (1741), in which he raises a number of societal issues.

In spite of Holberg's profound influence on Scandinavian letters and literature, this project is the first attempt to produce a critical and commented edition of his entire oeuvre. The primary product is a digital, online edition, but printed books will also be produced within the frames of the project.

The writings of Ludvig Holberg is a collaborative enterprise between the Danish Society for Literature and Language (Denmark) and the University of Bergen (Norway). It is projected to run for a period of six to eight years beginning in 2009. The University Library in Bergen, the Danish Royal Library, and the University of Copenhagen are engaged as partners in the project.

Zacharias TOpelius Skrifter

Zacharias Topelius Skrifter (ZTS) is a publishing project, one of the biggest in Finland. The project will produce both printed books and an electronic edition. The first part, Ljungblommor, was published 29 October 2010 (on both mediums simultaneously). The project will produce about 20-25 printed volumes, and other as an electronic edition (for example all letters, his lecture notes and diaries will only be published on the internet).

Zacharias Topelius (1818-1898) was an influential 19th century author who wrote poetry, novels, children’s stories and worked as a journalist as well as a professor of history.

ZTS will publish his complete writings as a scholarly edition. The text is based on published first editions and manuscripts for unpublished materials. All changes in the text is accounted for, even external variants from later editions during Topelius’ lifetime. Some normalization is done.

The project uses TEI with some extensions. The many genres pose an interesting problem in harmonizing annotation (poetry, novels, non-fiction, children’s tales, plays, letters, diaries, lecture notes, newspaper writings, religious hymns, speeches etc.). A manual for annotating exists within the project. Semantic elements encoded are persons, places, mentioned works. The annotated elements are visualized in the electronic edition, as well as being searchable through an xml search engine, eXist. The homepage works on mySQL and PHP. The texts on the homepage are in XML and transformed on-the-fly with XSLT. Additional metadata, such as detailed manuscript descriptions and information about persons and places are taken from separate FileMaker-databases.

Tools

CollateX

CollateX is a Java software for collating textual sources, for example, to produce a critical apparatus. As the designated successor of Peter Robinson's Collate it is developed jointly by several partner institutions and individuals under the umbrella of the European initiative "Interedition".

dLibra

dLibra software is the first Polish system for building digital libraries. This software supports the entire publishing process - from the editor work by making a work available online until after the introduction of amendments and publication of subsequent editions. dLibra is widely used by institutions such as academic and public libraries, museums or archives to provide digital form of their collections. It is now the most popular system for building digital libraries in Poland.

dLibra enables creating professional repositories of digital documents and sharing them with other people and systems on the Internet. Data exchange is based on generally accepted standards and protocols such as RSS, RDF, MARC, DublinCore or OAI-PMH. Digital libraries based on dLibra offer their users many powerful possibilities such as searching the content of the collected resources, searching bibliographic descriptions using synonyms dictionary, grouping digital publications and navigating their structure or precise and extensive ability to define rules for access to resources.

Research on digital libraries are kept in PSNC since 1996. One of the basic assumptions in the design of new services for users is that they were innovative. Therefore, in the framework of the conducted work, among others Digital Libraries Federation (DLF, http://fbc.pionier.net.pl) was launched - the next stage of building a network of distributed digital libraries and repositories in Poland. DLF provides advanced network services based on digital resources available in Polish digital libraries and repositories running the PIONIER network. Examples of services are services for the coordination of the digitization of libraries (plans for publications and detection of duplicates) or the library user’s network profile. These services can be used by external systems to integrate with the Polish network of digital libraries. dLibra system is integrated with all these services.

ENRICH Garage Engine (EGE)

The EGE is a major part of the ENRICH Garage system; its implementation is responsible for the management of conversions, transformations and validations of data performed by the ENRICH Garage. Conversions, transformations and validations are performed by a set of plug-ins compatible with the EGE plug-in specification. The software was initially created by the PSNC and OUCS as a part of the ENRICH project funded by the European Commission. EGE is distributed under an open-source license. Detailed information about EGE can be found at http://enrich-ege.sourceforge.net/

Juxta

Juxta is an open-source cross-platform tool for comparing and collating multiple witnesses to a single textual work. The software allows users to set any of the witnesses as the base text, to add or remove witness texts, to switch the base text at will, and to annotate Juxta-revealed comparisons and save the results.

This is a three year (2008-2011) joint project of the Department of Old Bulgarian Literature of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (BAS), Central Library of BAS, and the British Library in London. The project aims are aligned with the aims of the Repertorium: to make an important resource available to specialists and non-specialists alike, providing searchable accurate descriptions of MSS, illustrating each entry with at least one image, or a representative selection, and supplementing earlier printed catalogues with searchable new descriptions, up-to-date bibliographies, images, and a link to MOLCAT of British Library. At the same time, a publicly accessible e-catalogue of the records in XML format will be created at the BAS. It is proposed to refine the searching system already in internal use with the Repertorium of Old Bulgarian Literature to provide a user interface enabling web-based searching of the XML descriptions at BAS.

Metadata and Electronic Catalogues: Reference Book for Lecturers and Scholars in Palaeoslavistics

Homepage: Not yet available

The project aims to develop a system of reference books (glossaries, thesauri, authority files) for the workstation of the project Repertorium. The team is working on a thesaurus of standardized terminology in palaeoslavistics in eight languages (Latin, Greek, Old Slavonic, English, German, Russian, Serbian, spoken Bulgarian). It will include an index-glossary compiled in Moodle of more than 1000 translated and original texts and thesaurus of 750 terms.

NINES/Collex

NINES (Networked Infrastructure for Nineteenth-Ccentury Electronic Scholarship) is a scholarly organization devoted to forging links between the material archive of the nineteenth century and the digital research environment of the twenty-first.

The NINES Collex interface is at the center of these efforts. It aims to gather the best scholarly resources in the field and make them fully searchable and interoperable; and to provide an online collecting and authoring space in which researchers can create and publish their own work.

SYNAT: Science and technology system

SYNAT is a national research project funded by the Polish National Center for Research and Development, aimed at the creation of universal open repository platform for hosting and communication of networked resources of knowledge for science, education, and open society of knowledge. The project is coordinated by ICM (University of Warsaw), was launched in August 2010 and will last three years.

Poznań Supercomputing and Networking Center in SYNAT (PSNC), the operator of the Polish National Research and Education Network PIONIER, is one of the key SYNAT partners. It is responsible for the following parallel project stages:

Research in the field of federated model of scientific and technical information services

Prototype of the Integrated Knowledge System

Prototype of long-term preservation services for large volumes of source data

Text and Semantics: Topic Maps for Philosophical Text Analysis

Signum gained a remarkable experience in analysing and processing humanistic texts, which resulted in the development of a search engine for XML documents: TauRo-core.

In this research field, in collaboration with the Istituto Nazionale di
Studi sul Rinascimento, a demand has emerged for a system aimed at developing semantic research and aids for the reading and interpretation of philosophic texts. In particular the system allows a guided reading by means of a schematic visualisation of the concepts, represented with topic maps in accordance with XTM standard, and allows to search, by the TauRo-core search engine, in text and in concepts themselves. Since the different interpretations (topic maps) are described through the XTM standard that is an XML text, we can use TauRo-core to search in concepts.

A general objective of this project is to create a system for managing interpretations, by topic maps, of philosophical texts and at present it
shows a demo on Giordano Bruno's text De gli Eroici furori.

The project is in line with the theoretical view according to which it is
possible to pass, in the digital processing of humanities texts, from the
expressive (marked up stings of characters) to the interpretative level
(semantic descriptions and conceptualizations). It was carried out through
the creation of a tool for semantic search and guided reading, and through
the implementation of an algorithm to create a data structure (an MVD
graph) that can be visited by an algorithm of the same kind of that used
for textual variants.

A future aim of the project is to use the representation of interpretative variants by an MVD graph to redefine specific readings and markup structures of the expression of the text, in compliance with a dynamic model of textual variation, connecting variant readings and variant interpretations.

TextGrid

The joint project TextGrid, A virtual research environment for the humanities aims to support access to and exchange of data in the arts and humanities by means of modern information technology (the grid). In 2006 development began on a web-based platform, one which will provide services and tools for researchers for analysis of text data in various digital archives - independently of data format, location and software.

TextGrid serves as a virtual research environment for philologists, linguists, musicologists and art historians. As a single point of entry to the virtual research environment, TextGridLab provides integrated access to specialized tools, services and content. TextGridRep is a long-term archive for research data in the humanities embedded in a grid infrastructure, which will ensure availability and access to its research data as well as interoperability. The joint research project TextGrid is part of the D-Grid initiative, and is funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) for the period starting June 1, 2009 to May 31, 2012 (reference number: 01UG0901A).

TILE

A collaborative project among the the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (Doug Reside), the Digital Humanities Observatory (Dot Porter) and Indiana University Bloomington (John A. Walsh), the Text-Image Linking Environment (TILE) will over two years develop a new web-based, modular, collaborative image markup tool for both manual and semi-automated linking between encoded text and image of text, and image annotation.

Theory and method

The tree of texts

Homepage: None at present

This project involves investigating the theory behind stemmatic analysis of classical and medieval manuscript texts. Although statistical models borrowed from evolutionary biology have been used with some success by philologists and text historians, these statistical models have been used in a wide variety of ways, with no coherent or consistent methodology across text editions. The
objective of this research project is to develop an empirical model of the transmission of these texts, and to test this model on a variety of authentic and artificial text traditions.